Most of the property lies in the nearby desert and mountains covering more than 322,000 square feet. Many sets from the filming of various movies remain Advertisements
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University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez
The oldest existing, continually operating higher educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and is occasionally referred to as the oldest university by scholars. It was founded by Fatima al-Fihri in 859, which subsequently became one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the historic Muslim world. Incorporated into Morocco’s modern state university system in […]
Ibn Battuta – The final place in Tangier
The great explorer born into a family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, Morocco, on 25 February 1304, during the reign of the Marinid dynasty. His family belonged to a Berber tribe known as the Lawata. As a young man, he would have studied at a Sunni Maliki madh’hab the Islamic jurisprudence school, the dominant form of […]
